Gold dust woman

"Pulvis et umbra sumus."
(We are but dust and shadow.)

-- Horace, The Odes of Horace

Self portrait 12-29-13

"We're all more than the person we show to everyone else.

At least I hope so.

Because I feel like there's more to me than that.

I just haven't had the chance yet to show it."

-- Jessi Kirby, Golden

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

-- Pablo Picasso

Glitterati

"All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost."

-- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Self portrait 9-20-13

"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights."

-- Mae West

"When you're around me, you're going to get glitter on you."

-- Ke$ha